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CONVENTION 

BE"ns-EEN 

THE  POSTAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THKUNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA 

AND 

THE  POSTAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  DOMINION  OF  CANADA 

WITH 

INSTRUCTIONS  TO  POSTMASTERS  RELATIVE  TO  THE  SYSTEM  OF  POSTAL 
MONEY-ORDERS  BETWEEN  THE  UNITED  STATES  AND  THE  DOMINION 
OP  CANADA  WHICH,  BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT,  IS  TO  GO  INTO  OPERA- 
TION  AUGUST  2,  1875. 


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CONVENTION 


BETWEEN 


THE  POSTAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF 
AMERICA  AND  THE  POSTAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  DO- 
MINION OF  CANADA. 


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The  Postal  Department  of  the  Uuited  States  of  America  and  the 
Postal  Department  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  being. desirous  of 
establishing  an  exchange  of  money-orders  between  the  two  countries, 
the  undersigned,  duly  authorized  for  that  purpose,  have  agreed  upon 
the  following  articles : 

Article  I. 

There  shall  be  a  regular  exchange  of  money  orders  between  ihe  two 
countries  for  sums  received  from  remitters  in  one  country  for  payment 
to  beneficiaries  in  the  other. 

The  maximum  of  each  order  is  fixed  at  forty  dollars,  gold  value,  when 
issued  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  when  issued  in  the  United  States 
at  fifty  dollars  in  the  national  paper  currency  of  that  country,  but  no 
money-order  shall  include  the  fractional  part  of  a  cent. 

Aetiole  II. 

The  Postal  Department  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  shall  have  the  ' 
power  to  fix  the  rates  of  commission  on  all  money-orders  issued  in  the 
Dominion  of  Canada,  and  the  Postal  Department  of  the  United  States 
shall  have  the  same  power  in  regard  to  all  money-orders  issued  in  the 
United  States. 

Bach  Postal  Depai'tment  shall  communicate  to  the  other  its  tariff  of 
charges  or  rates  of  v^ommissiou,  and  these  rates  shall,  in  all  cases,  be 
paid  in  advance  by  the  remitter,  who  shall  not  be  entitled  to  repayment 
thereof.  It  is  understood,  moreover,  that  each  Department  is  author- 
ized to  suspend  temporarily,  after  having  given  sixty  days'  notice  of 
such  intention  to  the  other,  the  exchange  of  money-orders,  in  case  the 
course  of  exchange,  or  any  other  circumstances,  shonld  give  rise  to 
abuses  or  cause  detriment  to  the  postal  revenue. 

Article  III.     - 

Each  country  shall  keep  the  commission  charged  on  all  money -orders 
issued  within  it,  but  shall  pay  to  the  other  country  one-half  of  one  per 
cent,  on  the  total  amount  of  such  orders. 

Article  IV. 

The  service  of  the  postal  money-order  system  between  the  two  coun- 
tries shall  be  performed  exclusively  through  the  agency  of  offices  of 


oxclianfjo,  wliioh  shnll  be  established  in  the  United  States  by  the  Post- 
niastci -General  of  that  conntry.  Eight  snob  otllces  are  hereby  desig- 
nated, viz:  Bangor,  Me.;  Boston,  Mass.;  New  York,  Ogdensburgh,  and 
Butlalo,  N.  Y.;  Detroit,  Mich.;  Saint  Panl,  Minn,,  and  Portland, 
Oreg.,  and  the  number  and  location  of  these  omoes  nmy  be  changed 
from  time  to  time  by  said  Postmaster-General  as  tlw  interests  of  the 
service  may  require. 

ARTICLE  V. 

Any  person  in  the  United  States  desiring  to  remit  to  the  Dominion  of 
Canada  a  snm  of  njoney  within  the  limits  jnescribcd  by  Article  I,  hereof, 
may  pay  it  into  any  post-otlice  in  the  United  States  designated  from  time 
to  time  by  the  Postmaster-General  of  that  country  for  the  transa(  tion  of 
Canadian  money-order  business.  Such  person  shall,  at  the  same  time, 
give  the  name  and  address  of  the  person  to  whom  the  amount  is  to  be  paid 
in  said  Dominion,  and  also  his  own  name  and  address. 

Any  person  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  desiring  to  remit  to  the 
United  States  a  sum  of  money  within  the  same  limits,  may  pay  it  into 
any  money-order  oflice  of  said  Dominion,  designated  by  the'Postraaster- 
General  thereof  for  said  purpose,  giving  at  the  same  time  the  name 
and  address  of  the  person  to  whom  the  amount  is  to  be  paid  in  the 
United  States,  and  also  his  own  name  and  address. 

The  receiving  postmaster  in  either  country  shall,  in  accordance  with 
the  rules  established  by  its  Postal  Department,  forward  a  coupon,  an 
advice,  and  a  money -order  to  the  exchange-oflice  in  the  United  States 
most  convenient  to  the  residence  of  the  beneficiary  for  whom  the 
money  is  intended,  the  postmaster  of  which  exchange-office  shall,  im- 
uiediately  after  the  receipt  thereof,  certify  upon  the  coupon,  the  advice, 
and  the  order,  the  value  of  the  same  in  the  currency  of  the  country 
in  which  payment  is  to  be  uuule,  and  he  shall  likewise  enter  therein 
the  name  of  the  inland  oflice  at  which  the  same  is  to  be  i)aid,  and  shall 
at  once  forward  the  advice  to  said  oflice,  and  the  order  to  the  beneficiary 
for  whom  the  money  is  intended,  retaining  the  coupon  on  file  in  his 
office  as  a  voucher  for  his  own  protection  and  information. 

Aeticle  VI. 

The  money-orders,  advices,  and  coupons  issued  in  each  country  shall 
have  printed  thereon  consecutive  local  or  inland  numbers,  the  num- 
ber upon  each  advice  and  coupon  being  the  same  as  upon  its  corre- 
sponding order ;  and,  in  addition  thereto,  all  such  orders,  advices,  and 
coupons  shall  be  numbered  consecutively  at  the  exchange-oflice  at  which 
they  are  certified,  which  numbers  shall  be  in  the  order  of  their  receipt 
and  certification,  and  shall  be  designated  as  "  international  numbers." 

The  discovery,  by  an  inland  postmaster,  of  any  error  iu  a  money-order 
or  advice  shall  bo  by  him  promptly  reported  to  the  exchange-office 
through  which  the  same  was  certified,  and  any  error  coming  to  the 
notice  of  av  exchange-oflice  shall  at  once  be  reported  to  the  Money- 
Order  Offluo  jxt  Washington,  D.  C,  in  order  that  an  explanation  or  cor- 
rection may  be  given  or  asked  for,  as  the  case  may  be,  which  explana- 
tion or  correction  shall  be  afforded  with  the  least  possible  delay/ 

Article  VII. 

Lists  of  all  orders  issued  during  each  week  by  postmasters  in  either 
country  for  payment  in  the  other,  shall,  at  the  close  of  the  week,  or  as 
soon  thereafter  as  iiracticable,  be  transmitted  by  the  Postal  Depart- 
uicnt  of  the  issuing  to  that  of  the  paying  country,  and  jyUU^e  close  of 


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oacli  fiscal  quarter  two  copies  of  an  account  shall  be  prepared  and 
transmitted  to  the  Postal  Department  of  the  United  States  by  the  J'ostal 
Department  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  exhibiting  the  balance  found 
due  on  tlie  exchanges  of  money-orders  during  the  quarter,  one  copy  of 
which,  after  proper  verification  and  a(!kiu)wU'dgmiuit,  shall  be  returned  to 
the  Postal  Department  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  If  this  verified  ac- 
countshowsa  balance  in  favor  of  the  Postal  Department  of  the  Dominion 
of  (Canada, that  of  tiie  United  States  will  transmit,  with  such  verified  copy 
of  the  quarterly  account,  a  bill  of  exchange  on  Montreal,  Canada,  for 
the  amount  of  said  balance,  payable  to  the  Postal  Department  of  the 
Dominion  of  Canada.  The  latter  will  then  send  an  acknowledgment  of 
receipt  to  the  PostAl  Department  of  the  United  States.  If,  on  the  other 
hand,  said  account,  after  verification  aiul  acknowledgment  as  aforesaid, 
shows  a  balance  in  favor  of  the  Postal  Department  of  the  United  States, 
then  the  Postal  Department  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  will,  upon 
receipt  of  the  certified  copy  of  the  same,  transmit  to  that  of  the  United 
States  a  bill  of  exchange  for  the  amount  thereof  on  New  York.  Tlie 
United  States  Postal  Department  will  then  send  in  return  an  acknowl- 
edgment of  receipt. 

If,  pending  the  settlement  of  an  account,  one  of  the  two  Postal  Depart- 
ments shall  ascertain  that  it  owes  the  other  a  balance  exceeding  five 
thousand  dollars,  the  indebted  administration  shall  promptly  remit  the 
approximate  amount  of  such  balance  to  the  credit  of  the  other.  The 
expenses  attending  the  remittance  of  bills  of  exchange  shall  invariably 
be  borne  by  (he  Postal  Department  having  to  make  the  payment. 

This  account  and  the  letters  which  accompany  such  intermediate  re- 
mittances shall  be  in  accordance  with  the  forms  A,  B,  and  C,  hereto 
annexed. 

Articlk  VIII. 

Until  the  two  Postal  Departments  shall  consent  to  an  alteration,  it  is 
agreed  that,  in  all  matters  relative  to  money-orders  which  shall  result 
from  the  execution  of  the  present  convention,  the  Canadian  dollar  shall 
be  considered  equivalent  to  one  dollar  of  the  gold  coin  of  the  United 
States,  and  the  exchange  otfices  in  the  United  States  shall  certify  all 
orders  upon  the  basis  of  gold. 

Artiole  IX. 

The  value,  in  gold  coin,  of  deposits  made  in  the  United  ni.'os  in 
paper  money,  for  payment  to  beneficiaries  in  the  Dominion  of  C  tuada, 
and  the  value,  in  United  States  paper  money,  of  deposits  made  in  the 
Dominion  of  Canada  in  gold  coin,  or  cuirency  of  par  value,  for  payment 
in  the  United  States,  shall  be  determined  according  to  the  rate  of  pre- 
mium on  gold  in  New  York,  N.  Y.,  in  the  following  manner,  viz :  The  post- 
master at  New  York  shall,  at  three  o'clock  p.  m.  of  each  day,  except  Sun- 
day, telegraph  to  each  of  the  above-named  exchange-offices  in  the  United 
States  the  rate  of  premium  on  gold  at  that  hour,  which  rate  shall,  when 
received  by  such  exchangeoflice,  be  taken  as  the  basis  of  conversion  of 
money  values  for  the  next  and  for  all  subsequent  orders  and  advices 
dispatched  and  received,  until  the  receipt  of  the  next  telegram  from 
the  postmaster  at  New  York. 

AUTICLK  X. 

A  duplicate  order  shall  only  be  issued  by  the  Postal  Department  of 
the  country  on  which  the  original  order  was  drawn,  and  in  conformity 
•with  the  regulations  established  or  to  be  established  in  that  country. 


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AUTKXE  XI. 

A  nioiieyorder  returned,  on  application  by  a  dispatching  exchange- 
office,  to  the  inland  issuing  postmaster,  as  "  not  certittod  for  payment," 
may  be  repaid  by  said  postmaster  to  the  remittor,  in  the  stune  manner 
as  a  domestic  order. 


Article  XII. 

Au  order  which  shall  not  have  been  paid  within  twelve  calendar 
months  alter  the  month  of  its  issue  shall  become  void,  and  the  sum  re- 
ceived therefor  shall  accrue  to  and  remain  at  the  disposal  of  the  country 
of  origin,  and  the  advice  shall  bo  returned,  by  the  inland  postmaster 
holding  the  same,  to  his  Postal  Department,  to  be  by  it  returned  to  the 
Postal  Department  of  the  country  in  which  it  originated.  The  Postal 
Department  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  shall,  therefore,  enter,  to  the 
credit  of  the  United  States,  iu  the  quarterly  account,  all  sums  certified 
from  the  latter  country  which  remain  unpaid  at  the  end  of  the  period 
specified.  On  the  other  hand,  the  United  States  Postal  Department 
shal',  at  the  close  of  each  month,  transmit  to  the  Postal  Department  of 
the  Dominion  of  Canada,  for  entry  in  the  quarterly  account,  a  detailed 
statement  of  all  orders  dispatched  from  said  Dominion  which,  under 
this  article,  become  void.  '  *  % 

Article  XIII. 

Bcpayment  of  an  oMer,  not  void,  to  a  remitter  shall  not  be  maL.. 
until  an  authorization  therefor  shall  first  have  been  obtained  by  t^e 
Postal  Department  of  the  country  of  issue  from  the  Postal  Department 
of  the  country  where  such  order  was  made  payable ;  and  the  amount  of 
the  repaid  order  shall  be  duly  credited  to  the  former  country  in  &\e 
quarterly  account.  It  is  the  province  of  each  Postal  Department  to 
determine  the  manner  in  which  repayment  to  the  remitter  is  to  be  m^le. 


Article  XIV. 


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The  orders  drawn  by  each  country  upon  the  other  shall  besufject,! 
as  regards  payment,  to  the  regulations  which  govern  the  paym^t  of/ 
domestic  orders  in  the  country  on  which  they  are  drawn. 

Article  XV. 

The  Postal  Department  of  each  country  shall  be  authorized  to  adojpt 
any  additional  rules,  not  repugnant  to  the  foregoing,  for  greater  seofl- 
rity  against  fraud,  or  for  the  better  working  of  the  system  geDeraU|r. 
All  such  additional  rules,  however,  must  be  promptly  coramuuioatedjo 
the  Postal  Department  of  the  other  country. 

Article  XVI. 

The  present  convention  shall  take  effect  on  Monday,  the  2d  d#  of 
August,  1875,  and  shall  continue  in  force  until  twelve  months  after  the 
date  at  which  one  of  the  contracting  parties  shall  have  notified  to  the 
other  its  intention  to  terminate  it. 


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Done  in  duplicate,  and  signed  at  Washington,  on  the  eighth  day  of 
June,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy- 
five,  and  at  Ottawa,  Canada,  on  the  twenty-third  day  of  June,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-five. 

%",''rt'm:..r"*„V"rj     (Signed)     •  MARSHALL  JKWELL, 

t   Vnitodstau-g.  S  "ostm(i8krOeneml  of  the  United  IStatea. 


Se«l  of  th»  Po»l  Ortlco 
Dopat'tiiiiMit  of  the 
Uuniiniuii  of  (.'anntlu, 


•\ 


(Signed)  T.  FOURNIEU, 

PoHtmaHterOeneral  of  the  Dominion  of  Caninhi, 


I  hereby  approve  the  foregoing  convention,  and  in  testimony  thereof 
I  have  caused  the  seal  of  the  United  States  to  be  hereto  affixed. 
(Signed)  U.  8.  GRANT. 

By  the  President  : 

^  Soia  of  the  Uultod  Stateii.  j    (SigUCd) 


July  7, 187; 


JOHN  L.  CADWALADER, 

Acting  Secretary  of  /State. 


i  :       * 


INSTilUC'TIOXS  TO  PC^STMASTKUS 

lIKNATIVi:  T(» 

TirU  SYSTKM  OF  INTERNATIONAL  POSTAL  MONEY-ORDERS 
BETWEEN  THE  UNITED  STATES  AND  THE  DOMINION  OF 
CANADA,  WHICH,  BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT,  IS  TO  GO 
INTO  OVERATION  AUGUST  2,  1875. 


1.  The  excliunjre  of  money-ordora  between  the  two  countries  is  to  be 
eftected  tlirough  the  agency  of  certain  post-ottiues  in  tlie  United  States, 
selected  for  that  purpose,  to  be  known  as  "  intern ational  exciianoe- 

OFFICES." 

Eight  such  exchntjge-oftices  have  been  agreed  upon  in  the  foregoing 
postal  convention,  viz :  ' 


Bangor,  Me. 
Boston,  Mass. 
New  York,  N.  Y'. 
Ogdensbnrgh,  N.  \'. 


Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Detroit,  Mich. 
Saint  Paul,  Minn. 
Portland,  Oreg. 


2.  Certain  other  money -order  post-offices  in  this  country,  specially 
selected  for  this  service  by  the  Postmaster-General,  and  to  be  known 
as  ''  INLAND  OFFICES,''  in  distinction  from  the  exchange-offices,  are  au- 
thorized to  issue  money-orders  on  any  of  the  above-mentioned  inter- 
national exchange-offices,  payable  to  beneficiaries  in  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  and  to  pay  orders,  properly  certified  by  postmasters  of  such 
exchange- offices,  for  sums  remitted  by  postmasters  in  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  for  payment  to  beneficiaries  in  the  United  States;  but  each  ex-, 
change-office  shall  also  be  an  inland  office,  the  postmaster  at  which 
shall  have  the  right  to  draw  orders  on  his  own  or  on  any  other  exchange- 
office  for  certification  in  the  usual  manner.  Hence,  a  postmaster  in 
either  country  cannot  draw  an  international  money-order,  for  an  amount 
deposited  with  him,  directly  upon  a  postmaster  in  the  other,  but  must 
draw  the  same  upon  some  one  of  the  designated  "exchange-offices" 
most  convenient  to  the  residence  of  the  payee  or  beneficiary  for  whom 
the  money  is  intended.  An  international  money-order  must  not  be 
drawn  for  a  larger  sum  than  fifty  dollars  in  United  'States  currency,  and 
must  not  contain  a  fractional  part  of  a  cent.  The  fees  for  the  issue  of 
international  money-orders  are  as  follows,  viz : 

On  orders  not  exceeding  $10,  twenty  cents;  over  $10,  and  not  exceed- 
ing $20,  forty  cents ;  over  $20,  and  not  exceeding  $30,  sixty  cents ; 
over  $30,  and  not  exceeding  $40,  eighty  cents;  over  $40,  and  not  ex- 
ceeding $50,  one  dollar.  No  other  currency  than  United  States  or 
national-bank  notes  can  be  received  or  paid  in  this  country. 

3.  The  Canadian  dollar  is  equivalent  in  value  to  the  gold  dollar  of  the 
United  States,  but  the  issuing  postmaster  must  not  undertake  to  decide 
definitely  upon  the  actual  value,  in  United  States  gold  coin,  (or  Cana- 


PKRS 


DOMINION  OF 
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counti'ics  is  to  be 
the  United  tStivtes, 

lONAL  EXCIIANOK- 

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,  Miiiu. 
Dreg. 

country,  specially 
and  to  be  known 
iige-oftlces,  are  au- 
a-ineutioued  inter- 
1  the  Dominion  of 
St  masters  of  such 
1  the  Dominion  of 
ates;  but  each  ex-, 
stmaster  at  which 
ly  other  exchange- 
),  a  postmaster  in 
iler,  for  an  amount 
he  other,  but  must 
'  exchange-ofiBces  " 
aeflciary  for  whom 
rder  must  not  be 
itates  currency,  and 
)es  for  the  issue  of 

10,  and  not  excee<i- 
$30,  sixty  cents ; 
$40,  and  not  ex- 
United  States  or 
)untry. 

&  gold  dollar  of  the 
ndertake  to  decide 
old  coin,  (or  Cana- 


dian  money,)  of  a  ccrtnin  Hum  in  currency  for  which  an  interiiationiil 
order  in  iHHued  by  him.  LIm  is  at  liberty,  however,  to  advJHO  the  remit- 
ter UN  to  itM  iipproxiniate  viiliie,  which  may  be  found  to  ditfer  nmterialiy 
from  the  real  vahie,  iih  tlie  hitter  in  to  be  coniputeii,  on  tlie  day  tlio  order 
is  received  by  tlie  exeliiiiige-otllee,  up«>ii  tiiu  baHis  of  the  preiiiinm  on 
gold  in  Xrip  York,  as  last  advJHed  by  the  postmaHter  of  that  city. 
Hence,  this  Oepartineiit  <;aniiot  undertake,  on  behalt  of  a  remitter  iu 
this  country,  to  pay  a  determinate  sum  in  gold,  (or  (Janadiaii  moneyi) 
in  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  As  the  premium  on  gold  is  variable,  it  is 
evident  that  an  international  order;  issued  for  a  sum  in  United  States 
currency  may,  when  received  at  such  '•exchange-otlice,''  yield  a  sum  in 
gold  greater  or  less  than  that  considered  at  t'le  ofUce  of  issue  as  the 
ecpiivaleiit  of  such  order.  For  the  same  reason,  the  value  in  United 
States  currency  of  an  order  in  gold,  when  received  for  certification  by 
any  " excbangeotllce,"  would  depend  upon  the  premium  on  gold  iti  Xew 
York,  on  the  day  of  the  receipt  of  the  t)rder,  as  shown  by  the  last  tele- 
graphic advices  from  the  postmaster  thereof  to  such  ♦' exchange-ottlce." 
This  Department,  therefore,  can  only  agree  to  cause  payment  to  be  made 
to  a  beneficiary  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  of  the  gold  value  of  any 
international  money-order  issued  for  au  amount  in  United  States  cur- 
rency, and  to  pay  to  a  beneficiary  in  this  country  the  currency  value  of 
au  international  order  in  gold  from  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  To  guard 
against  misapprehension,  postmasters  will  be  careful  to  explain  this 
point  fully  to  remitters  and  to  payees. 

4.  A  special  form  of  application,  form  ^^Ko.  1,  Canadian,^^  must  be 
furnished  to  each  applicant  for  an  international  money-order  payable  in 
the  Dominion  of  Canada.  On  this  form  he  must  enter  all  the  particu- 
lars of  the  amount,  names,  address,  &c.,  and  must  state  the  full  name 
and  exact  residence  of  the  payee,  giving  the  town  or  village  and  county. 
From  the  items  contained  in  such  application  the  (inland)  issuing  post- 
master will  fill  up  an  international  money-order,  form  '■^.No.  12,  Cana- 
dian,^ the  advice  of  the  same,  "iVo.  12a,"  the  coupon,  "JVo.  12ft,"  and 
the  receipt,  "JTo.  12d,"  all  of  which,  after  having  been  properly  dated, 
and  stamped  with  the  money-order  stamp  of  his  ofllce,  he  will  forward, 
without  separating  them,  to  the  international  exchange-office  nearest 
the  residence  of  the  payee,  but  he  will  not  undertake  to  enter  upon 
either  of  them  the  name  of  the  post-office  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  at 
which  such  order  is  to  be  paid.  He  will  also  fill  up,  detach,  aud  deliver 
to  the  remitter  of  such  order  the  certificate,  "i\^o.  12c."  Upon  the 
return  to  him,  from  the  exchange-office,  of  the  receipt,  ^^  No.  12e?,"  he 
will  place  the  same  on  file  in  his  office  for  reference,  should  the  remitter 
apply  for  information  as  to  the  gold-value  of  the  order.  He  will  also 
enter  in  his  *' combined  register"  of  money -orders  issued,  the  particu- 
lars of  such  order,  in  accordance  with  the  instructions  contained  in  cir- 
cular "  No.  7Gg,  Combined,"  issued  June  1, 1875,  by  the  Superintendent  of 
the  Money- Order  System,  and  the  application  must  be  retained  on  file  at 
the  issning-offlce.  When  an  order,  drawn  by  a  postmaster  in  the  Domin- 
ion of  Canada,  and  properly  numbered,  dated,  certified,  stamped,  signed, 
and  addressed  to  him  by  the  postmaster  at  a  duly-authorized  interna- 
tional exchange-office,  is  presented  for  payment  to  the  postmaster  of  an 
inland  office,  authorized  to  transact  Canadian  business,  he  will  compare 
such  order  with  the  corresponding  advice,  which  should  previously  have 
been  receiyed  by  him,  and  after  having  satisfied  himself,  in  the  manner 
required  for  domestic  orders,  (see  sections  839  to  844,  inclusive,  of  the 
'*  Postal  Laws  and ,  Regulations,")  that  both  the  advice  and  order  are 

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correct,  and  that  the  person  presenting  the  order  is  legally'  entitled 
to  receive  the  amount  due  thereon,  he  will  pay  the  same,  and  will 
enter  all  such  paid  orders  upon  his  combined  weekly  statement  in 
the  manner  described  in  circular  No.  7Gg,  above  referred  to.  The 
postmaster  issuing  a  Canadian  order  should  be  careful  to  instruct 
the  sender  thereof  that  he  "should  at  once  inform  the  payee,  in 
Canada,  of  the  full  name  and  address  of  the  remitter,"  inasmuch 
as  payment  thereof  cannot  be  obtained  unless  the  payee  is  able 
to  furnish  that  information  to  ^be  paying  postmaster.  All  appli- 
cations for  duplicates  of  lost  or  missing  advices,  or  for  corrections  of 
advices,  must  be  made  to  the  exchange-postmaster  by  whom  such 
advices  were  certified.  The  general  rules  in  regard  to  the  issue  and 
payment  of  domestic  orders,  contained  in  the  book  of  "  Postal  Laws 
and  Regulations,"  are  to  be  observed  in  the  issue  of  international  money- 
orders,  in  so  far  as  these  rules  are  applicable.  The  postmaster,  how- 
ever, must  refuse  to  issue  an  order  payable  to  any  person,  if  the  sur- 
name of  that  person,  and  his  given  name  or  names,  or  at  least  the  initial 
letters  thereof,  are  not  furnished  by  the  applicant.  If  the  payee  be  a 
iirm,  the  usual  designation  of  such  firm  will  suffice,  such  as  "  Baring 
Bros,"  "  (Smith  &  Son,'  "Jones  &  Co.;"  but  the  mere  term  "  Messrs." 
such  as  "  Messrs.  Rivington,"  or  the  name  of  a  company  trading  under 
a  title  which  does  not  consist  of  the  names  of  the  persons  composing 
such  company,  as,  for  example,  "  The  Carrou  Company,"  must  not  be 
accepted  ab  sufficient  by  the  issning  postmaster,  who  will  decline  to 
issue  an  order  for  payment  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  in  favor  of  such 
payee,  as  payment  thereof  would  be  refused  in  that  country. 

5.  The  postmaster  at  New  York,  N.  Y.,  will  telegraph  at  3  p.  m.  daily, 
except  Sunday,  the  rate  of  premium  on  gold  at  that  lionr  in  New  York, 
to  each  of  the  exchange-offices  designated  for  the  certification  of  inter- 
national orders  to  and  from  Canada. 

C.  The  postmaster  at  each  of  said  international  exchange-offices  will, 
whenever  he  receives  an  order,  ("  No.  12,'')  with  its  corresponding  "ad- 
vice," "  coupon,"  and  "  receipt,"  stamp  AT  once  upon  each  of  these  papers 
the  current  international  number,  and  the  date  of  its  receipt  at  his  office. 
He  will  also  enter  therein  the  value  of  the  same  in  gold,  (or  Canadian' 
currency,)  if  such  order  originated  in  the  United  States,  or  its  value  in 
United  States  currency,  if  it  originated  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  as 
ascertained  by  calculation,  upon  the  basis  of  the  last  telegram  received 
by  him  from  the  postmaster  at  New  York,  and  the  name  of  the  post- 
office  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  or  in  the  United  States,  as  the  case 
may  be,  at  which  he  desires  the  same  to  be  paid,  which  should  be  the 
office  nearest  the  residence  of  the  payee  or  most  accessible  by  him.  He 
will  then  forwaM  the  order,  inclosed  in  an  envelope,  to  the  payee,  and 
the  advice  to  the  postmaster  instructed  to  pay  the  order,  and  will  send 
back  the  receipt  to  the  issuing  postmaster,  but  will  retain  the  coupon 
on  file  in  his  office  for  future  reference.  At  the  close  of  each  week  he 
will  make  up,  in  duplicate,  from  the  coupons  on  file  in  his  office,  a 
"weekly  list  of  international  money-orders,"  issued  in  the  United 
States,  which  have  been  certified  by  him  during  the  week  for  payment 
in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  a  "  weekly  list  of  international  money- 
orders,"  issued  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  which  have  been  certi- 
fied by  him  during  the  week  for  payment  in  the  United  States,  and 
will  forward  such  duplicate  *'  lists,"  with  his  weekly  statement,  to  the 
Superintendent  of  the  Money-Order  System  at  Washington,  D.  C.  He 
will  also  furnish,  upon  the  application  of  postmasters  drawn  upon,  dupli- 


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er  is  legally  entitled 
J  the  same,  and  will 
weekly  atatomeut  in 
ve  referred  to.  The 
e  careful  to  instruct 
nforni   the  payee,  in 

remitter,"  inasmuch 
8  the  payee  is  able 
jtmaster.  All  appli- 
,  or  for  corrections  of 
aster  by  whom  such 
;ard  to  the  issue  and 
)ok  of  "Postal  Laws 
f  international  money- 
The  postmaster,  how- 
my  person,  if  the  sur- 
i,  or  at  least  the  initial 
t.  If  the  payee  be  a 
fflce,  such  as  "  Baring 

mere  term  "  Messrs." 
)mpany  trading  under 
lie  persons  composing 
)mpany,"  must  not  be 
r,  who  will  decline  to 
mada  in  favor  of  such 
lat  country, 
graph  at  3  p.  ni.  daily, 
lat  hour  in  New  York, 
3  certitication  of  inter- 

l  exchange-offices  will, 
ts  corresponding  "ad- 
on  each  of  these  papers 
its  receipt  at  his  office, 
in  gold,  (or  Canadian' 
States,  or  its  value  in 
ominion  of  Canada,  as 
last  telegram  received 
the  name  of  the  post- 
ed States,  as  the  case 
,  which  should  be  the 
iccessible  by  him.  He 
ope,  to  the  payee,  and 
le  order,  and  will  send 
(fill  retain  the  coupon 
dose  of  each  week  he 
on  file  in  his  office,  a 
issued  in  the  United 
the  week  for  payment 
I  international  money- 
hich  have  been  oerti- 
tie  United  States,  and 
tekly  statement,  to  the 
(Washington,  D.  0.  He 
ters  drawn  upon,  dupli- 


cates of  lost  advices,  which  mnst  be  made  up  from  the  corresponding 
coupons  on  file  in  his  office.  When  the  postmaster  at  an  exchange- 
office  receives  an  application  from  a  paying  postmaster  for  a  corrected 
advice^  the  former  will,  if  necessary,  apply  to  the  issuing  postmaster  for 
precise  information  in  the  premises,  and  will  communicate  the  same  to 
the  postmaster  at  the  office  of  payment. 

Exchange-office  postmasters  are  required  to  keep  on  file  in  their 
offices  the  telegrams  received  daily  from  New  York  concerning  the  pre- 
mium on  gold. 

7.  When  a  remitter  of  an  international  money-order,  payable  in  the  Do- 
minion of  Canada  or  in  the  Un  jted  States,  makes  application  to  the  issuing 
postmaster  for  repayment  of  the  amount  thereof,  the  latter  should  imme- 
diately coQsmunioate  the  fact  to  the  postmaster  of  the  exchange-office  on 
which  it  was  drawn,  whereupon,  if  he  has  not  already  certified  and  for- 
warded the  order  to  the  payee,  and  the  advice  to  the  paying  postmaster, 
he  will  return  them  to  the  issuing  postmaster  for  repayment.  But  if 
the  order  (in  case  it  is  payable  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada)  has  been  so 
certified,  the  issuing  postmaster,  upon  the  receipt  of  notice  to  that  effect 
from  the  exchange-office,  will  apply  to  the  Superintendent  of  the  Money- 
Order  System  at  Washington,  D.  C,  for  repayment,  who  will  notify  the 
Canadian  Postal  Department  of  such  application,  and  request  authority 
for  repayment  of  the  order.  When  that  authority  is  received  by  him, 
notice  will  at  once  be  sent  to  the  issuing  postmaster  to  repay  the  amount 
of  the  order. 

8.  All  orders  certifleti  for  payment  in  either  country,  which  for  any 
reason  cannot  be  paid  within  twelve  months  aftev  the  month  of 
issue,  become  invalid,  and  will  be  recertified  to  the  country  of  issue 
for  repayment  or  other  disposal  in  accordance  with  the  laws  and  regula- 
tions of  that  country.  Postmasters  will,  therefore,  take  care  to  for- 
ward promptly  to  this  Department  the  advices  of  all  invalid  orders  of 
this  kind,  with  their  weekly  statements,  and  a  description  thereof. 

9.  All  inquiries  from  inland  postmasters  in  the  tJuited  States  con- 
cerning the  issue  or  the  payment  in  Canada  of  internatioual  money-orders 
should  be  addressed  to  the  postmaster  of  the  exchange-office  by  which 
such  orders  were  certified. 

10.  In  case  the  postmaster  who  issues  an  international  order,  does 
not  receive,  after  a  sufficient  lapse  of  time,  the  corresponding  receipt 
thereof,  duly  filled  up  and  stamped  by  the  postmaster  at  the  exchange- 
office  drawn  upon,  the  former  should  send  him  a  letter  of  inquiry  on  the 
subject,  with  the  request  that,  if  the  order  and  advice  have  not  been 
received  at  the  exchange-office,  the  latter  would  transmit  to  the  issuing 
office,  and  also  to  the  Superintendent  of  the  Money-Order  System  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  a  certificate  to  that  effect.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such 
a  document,  the  postmaster  who  issued  the  originals  should  at  once 
draw  upon  and  transmit  to  the  same  exchange-office  a  new  order,  advice, 
coupon,  and  receipt  in  lieu  thereof  for  a  like  amount,  after  having  writ- 
ten'across  the  face  of  ea^h  of  them  in  red  ink  the  words,  *' J»  lieu  of  Cana- 
dian money-order  No. ,  not  received  by  the  postmaster  at exchange- 

offi4!eJ"  The  certificate  of  non-receipt  should  be  carefully  filed  by  the 
issuing  postmaster,  but  it  is  not  necessary  for  him  to  furnish  the  remit- 
ter with  a  second  receipt.  Great  caution  should  be  exercised  by  ex- 
change-office postmasters  in  certifying  such  orders,  as  they  will  be  held 
responsible  for  all  double  payments  that  may  occur  through  their  negli- 
gence. 

11.  Postmasters  will  receive,  for  transacting  the  Canadian  international 


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12        . 

money-order  business,  the  following  rate  of  compensation,  viz :  one- 
fourth  of  one  per  cent,  on  the  gross  amount  of  orders  issued  and  of 
orders  paid.  But  the  annual  salary  or  compensation  of  a  postmaster, 
from  all  sources,  cannot,  except  in  the  case  of  the  postmaster  at  New 
York,  exceed  four  thousand  dollars. 

12.  The  domestic  money-order  regulations  in  regard  to  incidental  ex- 
penses, and  to  the  transfer  of  funds  and  blanks  from  a  late  to  a  newly- 
appointed  postmaster,  are  to  be  followed  in  the  transaction  of  the  Cana- 
dian international  money-order  business. 

13.  Attention,  promptitude,  and  accuracy  on  the  part  of  postmasters 
are  essential  to  the  utility  and  success  of  an  international  money-order 

system. 

MARSHALL  JEWELL, 

Postma8ter-Oeneral. 
July  15, 1875. 


snsation,  viz:  one- 
(Icrs  issued  and  of 
)ii  of  a  postmaster, 
postmaster  at  New 

rd  to  incidental  ex- 
i  a  late  to  a  newly- 
lactiou  of  the  Cana- 

part  of  postmasters 
tioual  money-order 


-J  JEWELL, 
>stma8ter-  General. 


CONVENTION 

BETWEEN 

THE  POSTAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA 

AND 

THE  POSTAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  DOMINION  OF  CANADA 

WITH 

IN8TKIJCTION8  TO  POSTMASTERS  RELATIVE  TO  THE  SYSTEM  OP  POSTAL 
MONEY-ORDERS  BETWEEN  THE  UNITED  STATES  AND  THE  DOMINION 
OF  CANADA  WHICH.  BY  MUTUAL  AGREEMENT,  IS  TO  GO  INTO  OPERA- 
TION AUGUST  2,  1875. 


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